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To: tejek who wrote (150366)	8/26/2002 6:30:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586275

Ted with the precision the bombs where dropped and the fact that they where dropped on military targets almost exclusively I don't think it is accurate to say we engaged in wholesale bombing in Afghanistan. As for carpet bombing, no one can carpet bomb a country the size of Afghanistan. We could carpet bomb Kabul, or maybe even all the cities if we wanted to, but such carpet bombing or even just plain old regular "wholesale bombing" would probably have killed tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians. Tim

To: tejek who wrote (150366)	8/26/2002 6:42:33 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586275

I consider the bombing that occurred in Afghanistan to be wholesale in which bombs were dropped throughout the country. Anything with intensity beyond that I consider to be carpet bombing. You're entitled to it, but it is a totally distorted view. Perhaps you're not familiar with how "Carpet bombing" got its name. Even when it was last done (Gulf War), it was highly targeted at military targets and "dug-in" Republican Guard units. Even when we bombed Hanoi I'm not sure it would have been called "carpet bombing", as the targets were decidedly military.